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Ack! I was calling my credit card company and mis-dialed one of the numbers. I was puzzled to hear a message saying that just by calling in, I won a trip to the Bahamas. I hope I'm not charged for the call (it's a 888 number so I don't think so), and I also hope I'm not in the "system" now and they'll start calling me.

Google the number (if you can remember it) and see what the searches turn up.

The scammers have jumped right on the Ebola outbreak. I have two missive in my spambox soliciting for "donations" to fight it. Both have very generic senders (So-and-So Associates) and websites like fightebola(dot)com.

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The scammers have jumped right on the Ebola outbreak. I have two missive in my spambox soliciting for "donations" to fight it. Both have very generic senders (So-and-So Associates) and websites like fightebola(dot)com.

Wow. That is *very* nasty. (The main groups I've heard of working over there are Samaritan's Purse and SIM, and the CDC and WHO are involved--not sure if you can donate to them?--so people would be wise to just go directly through one of those groups.)

The scammers have jumped right on the Ebola outbreak. I have two missive in my spambox soliciting for "donations" to fight it. Both have very generic senders (So-and-So Associates) and websites like fightebola(dot)com.

Wow. That is *very* nasty. (The main groups I've heard of working over there are Samaritan's Purse and SIM, and the CDC and WHO are involved--not sure if you can donate to them?--so people would be wise to just go directly through one of those groups.)

Going by news reports Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontiers are very much involved in treating people and they're a fairly well known charity.

The scammers have jumped right on the Ebola outbreak. I have two missive in my spambox soliciting for "donations" to fight it. Both have very generic senders (So-and-So Associates) and websites like fightebola(dot)com.

Wow. That is *very* nasty. (The main groups I've heard of working over there are Samaritan's Purse and SIM, and the CDC and WHO are involved--not sure if you can donate to them?--so people would be wise to just go directly through one of those groups.)

Going by news reports Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontiers are very much involved in treating people and they're a fairly well known charity.

I hadn't seen them mentioned in the articles I saw, but that totally makes sense that they'd be out there. So, yeah, I'd just suggest looking up the local groups who are really active there and donating specifically to them. Then you know that your donation is going in the right place. Even if they don't have a fund specifically for this project, I'm sure that money from their general fund is going to it, so a donation to their general fund will help fill that fund back up.

So as not to derail this thread, I'll link to an Ebola outbreak thread I have been maintaining here, on a travel forum. My thoughts about where to donate are in posts #79 and #92. (I mentioned the eHell sightings of scammers in post #90)

I was feeling all left out, but I just got a phone call today: apparently I have won a free trip to Disneyworld. All I had to do was press one to claim it. I hung up, then I picked it up to dial 1471 and discovered the very annoyed scammer was still on the line:"This is not a correct response. Please press one."I hung up again.

(It's a premium rate phone scam. In case anyone has not encountered it, there are details here)

Another scammer with laughable typing and spelling skills with a gmail account. All errors in original:

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Eric MooreChambers EnglandPhone: {removed}

Good Day ,

This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it betreated as such. I am Barr.Eric Moore, a solicitor at law. I am thepersonal attorney/sole executor to the late Mr.Jonathan, hereinafterreferred to as 'my client ‘who worked as an independent oil magnate inmy country and who died in a car crash with his immediate family onthe 4th of oct,2008. Since the death of my client in Oct, 2008, I havewritten several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any ofhis extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of hisabandoned personal estate and all such efforts have been to no avail.

More so, I have received official letters in the last few weekssuggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandonedpersonal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which myclient deposited the sum of 4.8 million U.S.D.On this note I decidedto search for a credible person and finding that you bear a similarlast name, I decided to contact you, that I may, with your consent,present you to the “trustee" as my late client's surviving familymember so as to enable you put up a claim to the bank in that capacityas a next of kin of my client. I find this possible for the fullerreasons that you bear a similar last name with my client making it alot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity. I propose that65% of the net sum will accrue to you at the conclusion of this dealin so far as I do not incur further expenses.

Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, I wouldlike you to contact me immediately by providing the following;................................(1) Your full Name................................(2) Mobile/ House phone number................................(3) Current Address................................(4) Occupation................................This will enable me open up communication with you. I will immediatelyappraise you with the complete details as well as fax you thedocuments, with which you are to proceed and I shall direct on how toput up an application to the bank. HOWEVER, you will have to assent toan express agreement which I will forward to you in order to bind usin this transaction.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail thenext step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that thisproposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears asthe required arrangements have been made for the completion of thistransfer. Like I have implied, I require only a solemn confidentialityon this.

A familial moocher, SIL will not put her hand in her pocket for anything. FIL is going to be about an hour away from her for a few days and has rented an apartment, SIL declares she's planning on going over and may stay, just so he knows to get enough food in for her and BIL. No offer to take him out for a meal or take him something over! This is the same SIL & BIL who when GMIL was in hospital went out for dinner with DH and MIL and MIL didn't have her purse with her (having jumped in the ambulance with GMIL) and expected DH to pick up the tab for all of them because MIL didn't have her purse (which he did so as to not cause a scene).

OK this one had me laughing out loud today. Subject line: Are you alive or dead? Re: the bolded part, I am so very tempted to reply to him that I am indeed, dead a la Monty Python: "I have expired and gone to meet my maker. Bereft of life, I rest in peace. I have shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible." that would be totally wrong, right?

After my appointment as the NEW GOVERNOR OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA,an official meeting held with the President o Nigeria and Minister of finance concerning unpaid and unclaimed funds to foreign beneficiaries,like you.

Are you alive or dead? The reason for this question is that I received an email from Mr.John Green. Who said that you are dead and you have given him Letter Of Authorization before your death to claim your fund?

Furthermore, I told him that the transfer is being with held due to a transfer fee of $200 dollars only. Your total sum which value is $27,000,000.00 is being with held due to a transfer fee of $200 only, and the fund have been approved for transfer in your favor.

And I asked him to call back on Monday, so I can confirm from you first. Are you aware of this? He also promised to pay the transfer fee of the sum of $200 dollars only on Monday. If you are alive Please, quickly get back to me via this email address for security reasons mrmarknobertccac@gmail.com)

let me know if you are alive or not also reconfirm your details such as:

OK this one had me laughing out loud today. Subject line: Are you alive or dead? Re: the bolded part, I am so very tempted to reply to him that I am indeed, dead a la Monty Python: "I have expired and gone to meet my maker. Bereft of life, I rest in peace. I have shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible." that would be totally wrong, right?

After my appointment as the NEW GOVERNOR OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA,an official meeting held with the President o Nigeria and Minister of finance concerning unpaid and unclaimed funds to foreign beneficiaries,like you.

Are you alive or dead? The reason for this question is that I received an email from Mr.John Green. Who said that you are dead and you have given him Letter Of Authorization before your death to claim your fund?

Furthermore, I told him that the transfer is being with held due to a transfer fee of $200 dollars only. Your total sum which value is $27,000,000.00 is being with held due to a transfer fee of $200 only, and the fund have been approved for transfer in your favor.

And I asked him to call back on Monday, so I can confirm from you first. Are you aware of this? He also promised to pay the transfer fee of the sum of $200 dollars only on Monday. If you are alive Please, quickly get back to me via this email address for security reasons mrmarknobertccac@gmail.com)

let me know if you are alive or not also reconfirm your details such as: